Typical Work Servers and Emails

Stildawn

Stildawn

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Lol got a random question.

On typical companies servers (local servers that run the office) does the server generally save an actual copy of all emails sent on the individual employee workstations?

Wouldnt that be a storage nightmare???

Or would they record like a email traffic type thing like how many emails sent to where etc.

Your thoughts?
 
I think the e-mails are stored on the users personal server account.

In which I believe each persona has a small "partition" you might call it, on the server that they log onto, and their e-mail is stored there. That way you can access your e-mail from multiple computers.

Though I am just guessing here.
 
Yeah that makes sense. As I can log into any computer here and use my emails.

Does this mean that emails that are deleted by the user are deleted forever?

Basically haha I accidentally deleted an important email haha wanna know if I can get it back before I tell the boss haha.
 
And it's not in the "Deleted items" folder?

It is probably gone. Just ask the sender to send it again :)
 
Nah its one I sent out. (requesting for a container to be returned to line) in the Freight Forwarding industry (lol im a customs broker) these are important lol cause the damn carrier didnt do it and now theres $6000 of overdue fees lol.

S**t lol oh well. Cheers
 
I obviously don't know what mail prog your'e using but Outlook 2007 has a "recover deleted items" in the tools menu. So yes, until it's purged it is held on the server.
 
emails are stored on the server and then copied to the client machine, and I think there is some sort of federal regulation now requiring you keep 7 years of email history for each employee in case they are a terrorist or something.
 
Basically haha I accidentally deleted an important email haha wanna know if I can get it back before I tell the boss haha.
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Call your service desk. Any reasonably sized company will likely have nightly backups of email boxes.
emails are stored on the server and then copied to the client machine
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To further this, enterprise email servers (ie not the pop server your ISP uses to send mail to you) always store your email on the server even after sending it to the client. That's why if you log in on another machine and connect to your email account you will still have all your emails not just the new ones that came in.
 
Cromewell said:
Call your service desk. Any reasonably sized company will likely have nightly backups of email boxes.
To further this, enterprise email servers (ie not the pop server your ISP uses to send mail to you) always store your email on the server even after sending it to the client. That's why if you log in on another machine and connect to your email account you will still have all your emails not just the new ones that came in.
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Even webmail keeps a copy on the server until you delete it and then that copy is still there, but it is now marked to be over written if need be.
 
So even though its been deleted out of my "sent emails" box, there will still be an actual copy on the server?

Call your service desk. Any reasonably sized company will likely have nightly backups of email boxes.
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My company is reasonably small so I dont know if they would, also the emails tend to be large (average 5mb each) so wouldnt that require massive amounts of storage, as I personally send roughtly 200 ish emails and receive that number again every day?

some sort of federal regulation now requiring you keep 7 years of email history for each employee in case they are a terrorist or something.
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Im in NZ so I doubt it lol.

On a side note, they also come round every now and again telling us to delete old emails. lol.
 
Even webmail keeps a copy on the server until you delete it and then that copy is still there, but it is now marked to be over written if need be.
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Webmail isn't really a pop server though even if they do offer a pop service.
My company is reasonably small so I dont know if they would, also the emails tend to be large (average 5mb each) so wouldnt that require massive amounts of storage, as I personally send roughtly 200 ish emails and receive that number again every day?
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They might not. Though everywhere I've worked (granted that's not that many places and they've all been 300+ people), always backed up emails nightly. It does take a lot of storage but storage is cheap and depending on the backup policy it can be reused within a month or so. The only way to know for sure is to ask if email boxes are backed up, at worst they aren't.
 
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